05/05/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: European Union, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Published: 5/5/2020. This nine-page document outlines a number of resource measures to use in contract tracing for COVID-19, including the use of well-trained non-public-health staff and volunteers; repurposing existing resources such as call centers; reducing the intensity of contact follow-up; and using new technologies such as contact management software and mobile apps. (PDF)
05/05/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Center for Health Security [Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health]. Published: 5/5/2020. This 24-page report offers answers and recommendations related to the urgent near-term need to address key challenges faced now by healthcare facilities and healthcare workers in the COVID-19 pandemic. Topics include the personal protective equipment supply chain, sustaining and augmenting the healthcare workforce, protecting emergency medical services personnel from infectious diseases, and preparing for the next pandemic. (PDF)
05/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: RAND Corporation. Published: 5/2020. This four-page document provides a list of strategies to help U.S. hospitals create critical care surge capacity during the COVID-19 pandemic. The list was created using a review of scientific literature about past outbreaks and the current COVID-19 pandemic, a survey of frontline clinicians conducted in collaboration with the American College of Emergency Physicians, and two roundtables conducted via teleconference with leading emergency and critical care physicians and public health and preparedness experts from around the country. (PDF)
05/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Imperial College London. Published: 5/1/2020. The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to have wide-reaching implications for malaria and its control. This nine-page report attempts to quantify the direct impact that the spread of COVID-19 will have on Plasmodium falciparum malaria morbidity and mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa using mathematical models of COVID-19 and malaria. (PDF)
04/30/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: European Union, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Published: 4/30/2020. This two-page document reports that no cases of Lassa fever or other viral hemorrhagic fevers caused by arenaviruses for were reported in the European Union/European Economic Area for 2018. The report is based on data for 2018 retrieved from The European Surveillance System (TESSy) on September 10, 2019. (PDF)
04/30/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 4/30/2020. This eight-page document is designed to ensure that the accommodation sector can protect the health of its staff and clients from COVID-19. It is addressed to collective tourism accommodation establishments such as hotels and similar establishments, holiday and other short-stay accommodation, and campsites. (PDF)
04/29/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: University of Southern California (USC). Published: 4/29/2020. LASI-DAD is the first and only nationally representative and publicly available dataset on late-life cognition and dementia in India. We have drawn a sample of over 4,000 community-residing older adults 60+ years of age from 19 states in India, representing 91.6% of India's ethnically diverse population. We will target one randomly selected adult male and one randomly selected adult female for each household. Study Parameters: The survey will draw on the 4,096 LASI-DAD households. We will target one randomly selected adult male and one randomly selected adult female for each household. The survey will take 15 minutes and will be administered via phone calls according to the following schedule: a first round, soon to be conducted in May 2020 and every two months thereafter for one year. We will randomly space interview slots over each two-month-long survey wave to facilitate time series analysis of responses to changes in the health and policy environment. As we plan to re-interview the same respondents over a one-year time period, we will monitor the course of the pandemic carefully and adapt the instrument, as needed, to ensure that it is filling high-priority knowledge gaps. At the same time, we aim to make changes judiciously to ensure that we have a high-quality time-series of central variables. India is an ethnically and linguistically diverse country. To ensure national representation and high-quality data collection, the instrument and consent are translated into 12 languages: Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati, Tamil, Punjabi, Urdu, Bengali, Assamese, Odiya, Marathi, and Telugu. All interviews will be conducted in respondents' local languages to ensure respondent comprehension and comfort. Preliminary Testing: We conducted a pilot to verify phone contact rates for the LASI-DAD sample in March 2020. The aim of this pilot is to examine the feasibility of Computer Assisted Telephone Interview for the sample. A first wave of 1,587 households had phone numbers collected between October 2017 and May 2018; we called 51 of these households and were able to get in touch with 25 (49%); the remaining 2,503 households had numbers collected during October 2018 or later. We called 49 of these households and got in touch with 40 (82%). This pilot was conducted over a few days and did not use back-up phone numbers on file with households; these contact rates are therefore lower bounds and suggest that getting in touch with 75-80% of the full sample is feasible. We then pretested the instrument in April 2020. The aim of the pretest is to assess the time required for the instrument administration, as well as to evaluate how respondents respond to the question contents. We conducted the pretest in six local languages with a sample size of 29 households, 58 interviews. After the pretest and debriefing, we refined the instrument for the survey rollout. Population: Adults only Length: 34 items Time to Complete: 15 minutes Administered by: Trained Lay Examiner/Interviewer Language(s): English, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati, Tamil, Punjabi, Urdu, Bengali, Assamese, Odiya, Marathi, and Telugu (PDF)
04/28/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 4/28/2020. This web page provides information and guidance about COVID-19 staffing for state, tribal, local, and territorial health departments from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, other organizations, and through other mechanisms. (Text)
04/28/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 4/28/2020. This five-page message library of COVID-19 information is intended to be locally adapted and delivered to the general public in countries around the world via SMS (text message) or voice message. Member States are encouraged to localize and translate the messages as necessary. (PDF)
04/27/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). Published: 4/27/2020. Using a combination of direct and indirect evidence, the authors of this COVID-19 guidance provide recommendations for eight specific infection prevention questions on the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare personnel providing care for patients with suspected or known COVID-19. Detailed descriptions of background, methods, evidence summary, rationale that support each recommendation, and research needs are provided . (Text)
04/26/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Published: 4/26/2020. This two-page document provides information about programs that can support the efforts of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and state, tribal, local, and territorial public health agencies to expand capacity for contact tracing and other COVID-19 response needs. (PDF)
04/25/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health. Published: 4/25/2020. The goal of this toolkit is to provide a set of standardized quantitative and qualitative assessments to harmonize data collection efforts and facilitate comparisons of the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), and promote collaborations across research efforts. This is intended to be a dynamic resource that will evolve as the epidemic does. These modules were created with a broad sample in mind. The goal was to develop a set of modules that could be applied to multiple populations with some minor tweaks. They can be used cross-sectionally or longitudinally and are designed for a newly selected sample (e.g., include information on basic demographics). The survey asks questions about possible exposure to the virus, experiences with testing and treatment, and some questions about how life has changed as a result of COVID-19 and the preventive measures that have been put in place. Population: Adults only Length: 148 items Time to Complete: 20-30 minutes Administered by: Trained Lay Examiner/Interviewer Language(s): English (PDF)
04/24/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Government of Canada. Published: 4/24/2020. This web page provides guidance specific to the COVID-19 pandemic for home care organizations and staff to prevent the transmission of COVID-19 in home care settings. (Text)
04/23/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Jewish Health. Published: 4/23/2020. The goals of the COPDGene Study are to discover what heritable or genetic factors contribute to the development of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in some people and to use this information to develop new therapeutic approaches to control this disease. Total people in COPDGene cohort is 10371. There are 3630 non-Hispanic, white males; 3303 non-Hispanic, white females. There are 1894 non-Hispanic, African American males; 1544 non-Hispanic, African American females. The participants were recruited from 20 clinical centers across the United States. COVID-19-related illness will be tracked using a brief questionnaire that the subject can choose to answer over the phone with a coordinator or through email. The subject will be contacted once a month for the duration of the pandemic. The subject will consent to this contact over the phone with a trained coordinator. The questionnaire has not undergone any specific testing but is currently in use for monitoring the COPDGene cohort. Population: Adults only Length: 17 questions Administered by: Trained Lay Examiner/Interviewer Language(s): English (PDF)
04/22/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 4/22/2020. This nine-page document, published with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and updated on April 22, 2020, gives guidance on additional marginalized and vulnerable groups and how to include them in COVID-19 risk communication and community engagement activities. The document also suggests key steps to include these groups in our work and understand their needs and their proposed solutions. (PDF)
04/22/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 4/22/2020. This four-page catalog lists all medical devices, including personal protective equipment, medical equipment, medical consumables, single use devices, and laboratory and test-related devices, that may be requested through the COVID-19 Supply Portal. (PDF)
04/22/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 4/22/2020. COVID-19 and the measures taken to mitigate the global impact of the pandemic have disrupted food production and food supply chains worldwide. This five-page guidance document, written with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, provides advice and recommendations for national food safety authorities to optimize food control functions and prioritize critical services that preserve the integrity of food safety systems. (PDF)
04/16/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 4/16/2020. This four-page document is intended for national authorities and decision-makers in countries that have introduced large-scale public health and social measures during the COVID-19 pandemic and are considering adjusting them. It offers guidance for adjusting public health and social measures, while managing the risk of resurgence of cases. (PDF)
04/16/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 4/16/2020. This course details how to draft an airport public health contingency plan for managing COVID-19 cases and outbreaks in aviation; and manage an outbreak of COVID-19 disease in aviation. (Video or Multimedia)
04/16/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: CHS [Core Humanitarian Standard] Alliance. Published: 4/16/2020. Faced with huge operational challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, the speakers in this one-hour webinar discuss how we can ethically engage with affected communities and remain accountable to them, and examine the role of ethics and accountability in the response to the pandemic. (Video or Multimedia)
04/09/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 4/9/2020. Participants in this course will be able to outline the core capacities to be in place for managing ill travelers suspected to have COVID-19 at points of entry and on conveyances of all types; and put in place mechanisms that facilitate the management of ill travelers suspected to have COVID-19 at points of entry and on conveyances of all types. (Video or Multimedia)
03/29/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Groupe URD (Urgence Réhabilitation Développement). Published: 3/29/2020. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, this 40-page report brings together the lessons from work on major health crises, humanitarian response, and crisis management so that they can be shared. It discusses how health systems react to crises, whether it be in terms of war and disaster medicine, regular public health systems, or the management of major health crises, such as cholera and Ebola. (PDF)
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